Why is my entire feed in this Lemmy server nothing but American politics and Reddit bashing
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I came to Lemmy cause Reddit went to shit, so I get that people want to bash it and I also understand that most of the users of Lemmy are from the US and the shit show that's happening there right now, but I am absolutely tired of these 2 types of posts being the only thing in my feed, I open this app because I want to learn new interesting things, and maybe see some funny and creative stuff, there's enough negativity and stress in my life and I don't need more of that on my only social media app. How do I filter these topics from my feed and which communities can I join to improve my feed.
I was kind of hoping for more Western African culture, news and discussion from this Mali-based server.
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That 15k big community, 5k dissidents and sub100 irrelevant.
Actually that's a clear demonstration of the system's failure.
There should be 2500 politics, not 3.
And you shouldn't need to post in 3 nor 2500 to reach the 20k people.This is because if you click on this
/c/politics
Which you can't because it's broken
But if you could, you should see everything in every 3 or 2500 politics community.But you can't. So if you want to be heard then the big community is the place you shpuld always post, unless your a dissident, in which case you will only have a 75% handicap and have to hope the dissidents don't also hate because then it is game over.
Btw multireddits dobt fux this, because there would only be 40 people that took the tine to setup an account multireddit of the 10 biggest ones. And 0 would add the 2500 politics communities.
Frictionless migration of communities and users
Subscription based, crowd source moderation (that everyone is expected to contribute to)
And automatic aglomeration of all fediverse wide same name communities on /c/communityname
Or bust
And its going to bust, because that means instance owned ceding their structural power and tge moderator delegates ceding their systemic power
Ain't gonna happen
Enjoy living in the farm!
- https://piefed.social/feeds
- I started posting regularly on [email protected] which was originally at similar levels of activities with [email protected], now it's in the top 10 most active communities of the platform. People will follow content, whatever the mods want to do.
- I just started [email protected] 2 days ago, reached 1000 active users just now
- [email protected] was created after powertripping of [email protected], and is now much more active ([email protected] for people interested)
You are saying that the model is broken, but examples above show otherwise.
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I came to Lemmy cause Reddit went to shit, so I get that people want to bash it and I also understand that most of the users of Lemmy are from the US and the shit show that's happening there right now, but I am absolutely tired of these 2 types of posts being the only thing in my feed, I open this app because I want to learn new interesting things, and maybe see some funny and creative stuff, there's enough negativity and stress in my life and I don't need more of that on my only social media app. How do I filter these topics from my feed and which communities can I join to improve my feed.
I use the frontend called tesseract on my computer and block keywords "trump" "elon" "washington" "musk" "republicans" "democrats" and then I judiciously block communities that make it to all with stuff I don't care about like European boycotts and pretty much anything about Canada.
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I don't see much of that stuff. I mostly subscribe to foss communities and I mostly see relevant stuff about foss and tech. Subscribe to communities pertaining to your hobbies/interests and your feed should reflect that
And block the ones that are filled with content you don't want. I've spent the last six months or so fine tuning my feed and see lots of stuff that's interesting to me and very little that I don't want.
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I was kind of hoping for more Western African culture, news and discussion from this Mali-based server.
Well there's some lovely anti-imperialist coups going on in West Africa recently, here please read these 30 news articles about Burkino Fa
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The majority of folk that migrated from Reddit probably did so because of reasons related to those two things.
The earliest exoduses were socialist political communities banned from reddit (particularly /r/chapotraphouse who formed Hexbear, and /r/GenZedong who landed in Lemmygrad). Then, the most recent exodus is related to censorship related to Luigi Mangione, a US political issue, coinciding with a strong sudden re-emergence of global anti-American [government] sentiment due to diplomatic catastrophes with a range of former allies.
In fact, the founders cite reddit's corporate nature and its pro-US, racist stances as their motivation to create Lemmy: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/07-history-of-lemmy.html
So I'm not surprised at all that the default feed is covered in political topics, it's always been a strong topic here and it's just gotten stronger. But there's probably enough activity now that one can filter it out and still have enough action to keep it fun.
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I came to Lemmy cause Reddit went to shit, so I get that people want to bash it and I also understand that most of the users of Lemmy are from the US and the shit show that's happening there right now, but I am absolutely tired of these 2 types of posts being the only thing in my feed, I open this app because I want to learn new interesting things, and maybe see some funny and creative stuff, there's enough negativity and stress in my life and I don't need more of that on my only social media app. How do I filter these topics from my feed and which communities can I join to improve my feed.
Hey OP, I just want to say from experience the reddit bashing usually dies down a bit after a quick spike of reddit refugees like we're seeing now.
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That's not true. I've got a pretty active feed of subs, you just need to spend time curating a good list
There hasn't been a post in /sailing in 2 years. Depends what you're looking for I guess.
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There hasn't been a post in /sailing in 2 years. Depends what you're looking for I guess.
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Lemmy.world
Do you have any instances you suggest, I'm new to fediverse and picked this one at random
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Lemmy is definitely rough if you're into niche communities, true. So was Reddit in its early years though, to be fair.
"To Be Fahr."
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There hasn't been a post in /sailing in 2 years. Depends what you're looking for I guess.
Sucks for you if your only interest is sailing.
No, for real: I have subscribed to over 100 communities and my "subscribed" feed is always full of stuff.
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Do you have any instances you suggest, I'm new to fediverse and picked this one at random
Every instance has its ups and downs. Account age is of little value so I would say use your current account for a while and explore the different instances.
You can also make different accounts on different instances with the same username. That practice is totally normal.
Because .world is the biggest instance it tends to be the most Reddit like. Maybe try lemmy.sdf if you want a different more local experience.
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I came to Lemmy cause Reddit went to shit, so I get that people want to bash it and I also understand that most of the users of Lemmy are from the US and the shit show that's happening there right now, but I am absolutely tired of these 2 types of posts being the only thing in my feed, I open this app because I want to learn new interesting things, and maybe see some funny and creative stuff, there's enough negativity and stress in my life and I don't need more of that on my only social media app. How do I filter these topics from my feed and which communities can I join to improve my feed.
Come visit [email protected] or [email protected]
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I came to Lemmy cause Reddit went to shit, so I get that people want to bash it and I also understand that most of the users of Lemmy are from the US and the shit show that's happening there right now, but I am absolutely tired of these 2 types of posts being the only thing in my feed, I open this app because I want to learn new interesting things, and maybe see some funny and creative stuff, there's enough negativity and stress in my life and I don't need more of that on my only social media app. How do I filter these topics from my feed and which communities can I join to improve my feed.
Clearly you don’t frequent the NSFW forums
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I came to Lemmy cause Reddit went to shit, so I get that people want to bash it and I also understand that most of the users of Lemmy are from the US and the shit show that's happening there right now, but I am absolutely tired of these 2 types of posts being the only thing in my feed, I open this app because I want to learn new interesting things, and maybe see some funny and creative stuff, there's enough negativity and stress in my life and I don't need more of that on my only social media app. How do I filter these topics from my feed and which communities can I join to improve my feed.
Use a filter and remove everything dedicated to US politics and Reddit to reduce the quantity by 80%
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I came to Lemmy cause Reddit went to shit, so I get that people want to bash it and I also understand that most of the users of Lemmy are from the US and the shit show that's happening there right now, but I am absolutely tired of these 2 types of posts being the only thing in my feed, I open this app because I want to learn new interesting things, and maybe see some funny and creative stuff, there's enough negativity and stress in my life and I don't need more of that on my only social media app. How do I filter these topics from my feed and which communities can I join to improve my feed.
I have two feeds: one is "subscribed" for all the stuff I'm actually interested in, and the other is "all", for when I'm up for a bit of US politics, Reddit-bashing and weird German memes..
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I came to Lemmy cause Reddit went to shit, so I get that people want to bash it and I also understand that most of the users of Lemmy are from the US and the shit show that's happening there right now, but I am absolutely tired of these 2 types of posts being the only thing in my feed, I open this app because I want to learn new interesting things, and maybe see some funny and creative stuff, there's enough negativity and stress in my life and I don't need more of that on my only social media app. How do I filter these topics from my feed and which communities can I join to improve my feed.
What I think you need to do is have multiple accounts, I have one with a LOT of filters. "Trump, Drumpf, Trumpist, MAGA, Elon, Musk, Tesla, Rep, Republican " you get the idea. Any community I have no interest in blocked, plenty of users who go into benign subs and bring up politics blocked... Its my relaxing feed. NSFW filter on I have one with the only filter being the nsfw one. I see the whole disaster. I have one on Lemmy.nsfw... for reasons. Filter by local... I have one -
Give up is my middle name
Fuck "give up" That McGee the 3rd -
I feel like we always have been - the Trudeau Sr. quote comes to mind:
Living next to you [The U.S.] is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
Only more so now that said beast is trumpeting, stomping its feet and shitting everywhere.
That's a good quote! Thanks.
